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Criticising the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India’s (TRAI) latest regulations on predatory pricing, significant market power (SMP) and many other decisions, the Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) on Tuesday said the regulator has ‘deeply victimised’ the industry.

For a good while after the Chinese tech company entered India, no one even knew how to pronounce Xiaomi. Well, look at it now, a virtual household name and the one name that instantly comes to mind when considering a good solid smartphone for a reasonable price. There are no end of low-priced phones everywhere…

The Telangana government on Monday demonstrated the high-speed optical fibre connectivity project T-Fiber at the World Congress on Information Technology (WCIT). It showcased the pilot being launched in four villages in Maheshwaram mandal near Hyderabad, where fibre connectivity is used to deliver e-governance, e-health and education.

Debt-ridden Reliance Communications has received shareholders’ approval for monetisation of its assets with an overwhelming 99.91 per cent majority. Under its asset sales plan, the Anil Ambani group company would sell its wireless assets to Reliance Jio Infocomm, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Reliance Industries.

A mandatory condition in the Universal Services Obligation Fund (USOF) that states operators should use 2G technology for voice and 4G for data is resulting in a huge loss of hundreds of crores of rupees to the exchequer. This is also resulting in a virtual monopoly of an incumbent service provider, according to Reliance Jio…

Our Bureau Telecom operators in India have added 3,46,778 mobile towers at an investment of around ₹34,677 crore between January 1, 2017 and January 1, 2018 in an effort to improve call drops, the Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) said on Friday.